- From: Greg Bolsinga <bolsinga@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:32:05 -0800
- To: Aza <aza@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-geolocation <public-geolocation@w3.org>
On Nov 14, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Aza wrote: > The prevalent use case for civic addresses is showing the user's > current location in textual form. > > Lat/long is not particularly human readable, and there are many > times you do not want to use a map-based representation. For > instance, Twitter, Pownce, and Facebook have mentioned that they'd > like to have the users location (generally at city/zip-code level) > included as meta information in the one-line user updates. Lat/long > isn't good UX, and it has to be text. +1 Aza, I don't see your messages get through to the public-geolocation list for some reason. Any idea why? Thanks, -- Greg
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